enhancement request added [Re: Visible UML Comments]

[Alan Horkan <horkana tcd ie>]

> > > We were talking about the UML objects, but if we extend the object menu
> > > mechanism anyway, it could apply to shapes, too.  Though better would
> > > probably be to have a generic way to keep aspectratio (Shift-drag,
> > > perhaps).
> >
> > There are a few bug reports about having the mouse cursor change for
> > various reasons.
> >
> > The behaviour i would expect would that if you pull the boxes on
> > the centre of the vertical/horizontal side the object would only be
> > resized vertically/horzintally.
> >
> > I did expect the diagonal to resize both equally but i am probably just
> > imagining it as both OpenOffice Draw and PowerPoint allows free resize
> > from the diagonal corner.
>
> Yes, that is the most common behaviour.  I don't know if there's a common
> way to do aspect ratio.


> > should i file either of these in bugizlla for tracking?
>
> Please file something about the aspect ratio, yes.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87966
done

Toggle Fixed/Free aspectratio from Object menu


ill look for an existing bug to add the expected resize behaviour
description to, or if none exists create one (the bug i mentioned before
about using different cursors would be a blocker on it)

Sincerely

Alan Horkan
http://matrix.netsoc.tcd.ie/~horkana/dia